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About the author: Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and spent her summers in a small Mississippi town with an extended family full of characters. She writes about them and they live on in her stories.
She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and taught at Towson University in Maryland, Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Vermont College.
The Sixties Trilogy is Deborah's newest project, three documentary novels of the 1960s. Book 1 is COUNTDOWN (1962), book 2 is REVOLUTION (1964), and book three (in progress) is tentatively titled TRIBE (1969).
Picture books by Deborah are FREEDOM SUMMER; ONE WIDE SKY; and a forthcoming book about Robert Kennedy.
Summary:
When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit her new grandbaby in Hawaii, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer without her in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi. What happens instead? She makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother . . . and finally learns to stop blaming herself for her grandfather's death. Not too bad, for a nine-year-old.
Winner of numerous awards and included on seventeen state reading lists, Love, Ruby Lavender is now republished in paperback with the original cover art by Marla Frazee.
Cick the Audio Player to hear the author pronounce her name.
About the author:
Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and spent her summers in a small Mississippi town with an extended family full of characters. She writes about them and they live on in her stories.
She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and taught at Towson University in Maryland, Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Vermont College.
Deborah has written three novels about growing up in the south. They are known as the Aurora County Trilogy: Love, Ruby Lavender, Each Little Bird That Sings, The Aurora County All-Stars.
The Sixties Trilogy is Deborah's newest project, three documentary novels of the 1960s. Book 1 is COUNTDOWN (1962), book 2 is REVOLUTION (1964), and book three (in progress) is tentatively titled TRIBE (1969).
Picture books by Deborah are FREEDOM SUMMER; ONE WIDE SKY; and a forthcoming book about Robert Kennedy.
Author's website: http://www.deborahwiles.com/
Love Ruby Lavendar 1:45 minute book trailer-
Summary:
When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit her new grandbaby in Hawaii, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer without her in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi. What happens instead? She makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother . . . and finally learns to stop blaming herself for her grandfather's death. Not too bad, for a nine-year-old.
Winner of numerous awards and included on seventeen state reading lists, Love, Ruby Lavender is now republished in paperback with the original cover art by Marla Frazee.
Paperback, 188 pages
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